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More on William Cullen Bryant from Wikipedia:
His first employment, in 1825, was as editor of the New-York Review,
which within the next year merged with the United States Review and
Literary Gazette. But in the throes of the failing struggle to raise
subscriptions, he accepted part-time duties with the New-York Evening
Post under William Coleman; then, partly because of Coleman's ill
health, traceable to the consequences of a duel and then a stroke,
Bryant's responsibilities expanded rapidly. From assistant editor he
rose to editor-in-chief and co-owner of the newspaper that had been
founded by Alexander Hamilton. Over the next half century, the Post
would become the most respected paper in the city and, from the election
of Andrew Jackson, the major platform in the Northeast for the
Democratic Party and subsequently of the Free Soil and Republican
Parties. In the process, the Evening-Post also became the pillar of a
substantial fortune. From his Federalist beginnings, Bryant had shifted
to being one of the most liberal voices of the century. An early
supporter of organized labor, with his 1836 editorials asserting the
right of workmen to strike, Bryant also defended of religious minorities
and immigrants, and promoted the abolition of slavery.[8] He "threw
himself into the foreground of the battle for human rights"[9] and did
not cease speaking out against the corrupting influence of certain
bankers in spite of their efforts to break down the paper.[10] According
to newspaper historian Frank Luther Mott, Bryant was "a great liberal
seldom done justice by modern writers".[11]
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